Everyone else is listing them. Here are mine:
1. NetVibes. My home page, my bookmarks, my RSS feeds, my ToDo list, my calendar, my Weather, my GMail. All on one page.
2. WordPress. You’re looking at it. Couldn’t live without it.
3. Flickr. Can’t go a day without checking my comments, my friend’s photos, my groups’ postings.
4. GMail. I actually don’t use it that much, but nice to have. I usually use my GMail address when I have to give an address to sign up for something. That way it gets all the spam and filters it rather nicely. Integrates nicely with NetVibes too.
5. GCal. Decent calendar, accessible from anywhere. Integrates with NetVibes.
6. Brightcove/Google Video/YouTube. OK, I had to say Brightcove, right? But honestly for me it’s more about content. I’ve been watching a lot of old Nova shows on Google Video lately. One cool thing you might not be aware of in Brightcove is the video search engine, which will return results from every major video service.
But… where are the Flash RIAs?
Good question Philippe. Obviously, all the video ones are Flash-based. I haven’t seen Flash-based replacements that I really like for the others listed there. I’ll be happy to try any suggestions that I haven’t already tried.
A good Flash one is yahoo maps.
I don’t know if I’d really call Flickr an RIA… the thing is, it’s not that great of a site either–but, like you say, it’s about content and there’s tons of it there (in addition to you 1000s of photos Keith).
I’ll have to try netVibes. I’ve been digging google reader and think it might have better keyboarding options.
One thing I often wonder about all such sites where you store all your information (some of which is somewhat personal) on a centralized server is exactly who has access to that… what happens when the company goes away, etc.? I’m not trying to resist entropy but in the case of photos, I’d rather store them locally.
Thanks,
Phillip
Yahoo maps is a good app. I can’t say that I use it all that often though. I’ve pretty much got my commute committed to memory. 🙂
Yeah, I guess something like Flickr kind of blurs the line between App and Site. I could go either way with it. Why do you think it’s not a great site?
I’m so addicted to netvibes, on the odd occasion it goes down for a bit, I don’t really know what to do. My internet connection may as well be down.
In terms of online storage, I would never consider flickr, or any other site as a primary storage site for anything valuable. Flickr is about sharing, not storing, for me.
My gripe with flickr is that I find myself clicking the back button A LOT. There needs to be someway to refresh parts of the page without affecting the browser history. I like all the APIs (not that I’ve had a chance to use them).
In addition to the risk of everyone’s stuff being held remotely (and, conversely, to the fact having it distributed is makes it safer in a way) is the fact that all of us “people of the year” are producing so much media. The issue there is that we’re also required to all become librarians. Personally, I don’t mind that much, but I wonder if everyone is really cut out to manage all their digital stuff. Maybe kids are learning to do this… how to manage and back up files. I sort of doubt it.
Even though I’m a web developer and I should be really into this sort of stuff.. I find myself not using any web application actively and only really using stuff hooking back in to my desktop..
Those are really the applications I love.. I love basecamp, because I can use it from my ical.. love RSS, because I can track it through thunderbird, and podcasts through itunes..
Maybe I’m just old fashioned